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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Mary's second husband die?
(a) 2 months after they are married.
(b) 2years after they are married.
(c) 2 weeks after they are married.
(d) 2 minutes after they are married.

2. Who is Leon Trout?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The Captain of the Bahia.
(c) The father of the Galapagos Islands.
(d) A paranoid schizophrenic soldier.

3. Leon Trout's fellow Marine recommends a young __________ doctor to treat his disease.
(a) Scottish.
(b) Swedish.
(c) Russian.
(d) Irish.

4. What does James Wait say he thought people were put on earth to do?
(a) To work until they die.
(b) To gain knowledge.
(c) To help each other.
(d) To find cures to diseases.

5. Who does Hisako Hiroguchi perform her first intimate act with in Chapter 32?
(a) Siegfried.
(b) Mary.
(c) Selena.
(d) Mandarax.

6. What would have happened to Leon Trout if the Marine Corps found out about Leon's disease?
(a) They would dock his pay.
(b) They would kill him.
(c) They would lock him up in an asylum.
(d) They would give him a dishonorable discharge.

7. Who fathers Akiko's seven furry children?
(a) Siegfried von Kleist.
(b) Adolf von Kleist.
(c) Kamikaze.
(d) Mandarax.

8. Who has become deaf after the explosion in Chapter 36?
(a) Siegfried von Kleist.
(b) Adolf von Kleist.
(c) Mandarax.
(d) James Wait.

9. Which group survives in the greatest numbers in the watery environment of the Galapagos Archipelago?
(a) Manufacture -folk.
(b) Business-folk.
(c) Farmer-folk.
(d) Fisher-folk.

10. How many warplanes does Ecuador keep at the Guayaquil International Airport?
(a) 100.
(b) 75.
(c) 10.
(d) 45.

11. When the Bahia sinks, who has the only beard on the island?
(a) Adolf von Kleist.
(b) Willard Flemming.
(c) Andrew MacIntosh.
(d) Siegfried von Kleist.

12. Who fathers all the Kanka-bono girl's children?
(a) Kamikaze.
(b) Leon Trout.
(c) The Captain.
(d) James Wait.

13. What is the name of the Peruvian pilot who has his fighter-bomber skipping from wisp to wisp of finely divided matter at the very edge of the planet's atmosphere in Chapter 34?
(a) Guillermo Reyes.
(b) Kilgore Trout.
(c) Bobby King.
(d) Willard Flemming.

14. Who is the only non-Kanka-bono who can converse with the Kanka-bonos?
(a) Kamikaze.
(b) Mary Hepburn.
(c) Robert Wojciehowitz.
(d) Akiko.

15. Who could be seen as a virtuous knight as in days of yore in Chapter 38?
(a) Major Ricardo Cortez.
(b) Adolf von Kleist.
(c) Mandarax.
(d) Charles Darwin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nickname does Mary Hepburn give to the Bahia?

2. Who was head of the English Department at Ilium High School who had proposed marriage to Mary Hepburn?

3. What animal begins attacking the Captain's bedsores?

4. What instrument does the Captain of the Bahia use to call for help?

5. Whom do the Kanka-bono girls eat?

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